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This is Benjamin.One of my dogs and a really cute bastard at that. He never stays still, even when half dead. Here is one of my regrets. It was two or three years ago. ( Pay no attention to the date on the photos. They are totally wrong) I was tired. I was exhausted and weak from life. I cared for nothing. I never noticed.... No one noticed..... That the dog was ill.... Until one friday. He had a gaping hole, the one place we could not see, right under his chest. I had noticed a smell, days ago. It was night. I left home early and reached home late everyday. That night I took my phone light and I looked him over. I saw nothing unusual but that scent! It was the friday that I saw him coughing. Every cough he made, blood and gore fell from his chest. I was shocked. I told my mother, she said noticed it that morning too. That saturday, my father said that the Benji might die. I got up that saturday morning and I looked at the hole. It was huge. He had a nick under his chest that got infected by screw worms who ate throught his schest. It smelt bad and he looked seriously ill. I cried. My sister cried. I sobbed. It took me a while but I steadied my heart. I put on old clothing. I brought the old boy under a tree. I chained him up. I stared at him and took many pictures of him. I cried some more. Then I decided to see if I could help him. I didn't know a vet and I didn't have a dollar to my name. (I am perpetually poor) I grabbed screw worm spray, screw worm powder, wound oil, newspapers, tweezers, disinfectant and bandages. I nudged Benji on the newspapers, held him down and sprayed his wound. Removing more than 200 hundred screw worms from his chest. The smell was horrible. There was gore from his chest and lots of tears on my part. I continually apologised. It took over four hours. I bandaged him up. Threw the clothes I used away. Cleaned the area up and went to bed. I slept poorly that night, as I had slept the night before. I woke up that sunday morning trying to steady my heart, that Benji might be dead. I looked outside and there he was. I looked him over. I removed about 40 more screw worms. My father and I spoke about it. He put Benji in a shirt from my baby brother. Benji got several shirts to wear, to protect his wound with tape to keep the shirts from slipping off. The shirts kept him from getting infected with screw worms again. These are pictures of him that sunday morning. He healed well and he is alive to this day. He was young then, about two or three years old. He is 5 now. Despite 5 years being relatively young he has grey hairs all over. That was one of several times, he had an infection and the last time he caught screw worms. I hope he never does again. Also, he never stays still. 24-09-2014 He caught another infection but he recovered.
This was the last time he ever got any kind of screw worm infection, There is a screw worm epidemic in Jamaica.
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